Hammer performance

Jasse Jansson jasse at yberwaffe.com
Mon Jul 7 08:13:51 PDT 2008


On Jul 7, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Michael Neumann wrote:

Hi,

Just compared writing a 1 GB large file with Hammer and got:

  dragnas# dd if=/dev/zero of=test count=2000000
  2000000+0 records in
  2000000+0 records out
  1024000000 bytes transferred in 26.880290 secs (38094827 bytes/sec)
When I do the same (on the same hard disk) with UFS, I get around  
twice
the write performance:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=test count=2000000
  2000000+0 records in
  2000000+0 records out
  1024000000 bytes transferred in 12.816585 secs (79896477 bytes/sec)
Doesn't this use of the dd command create a sparse file ???
That might be the answer, but I'm just guessing.




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